Let's put it this way: if you need to ask a lawyer whether what you do is "right" or not, you are morally corrupt. Let's not go there. We don't base our morality on law.

I don't think commercialization is the answer to anything. It's just one more facet of Linux, and not the deciding one by any means.

Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.

If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad.

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

Generally, the best way to learn git is probably to first only do very basic things and not even look at some of the things you can do until you are familiar and confident about the basics.

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.